Pin-attached button



Dec. 11, 1928. 1,695,252

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Application filed March '5, 1928. Serial No. 259,215.

The object of this invention is to provide a pin-attached button, for use in securing seat and other covers on automobiles and elsewhere, in which covers buttonholes are made. here covers having butt onholes are used and buttons are in fixed location, there may be a lack ofregistcii' between buttonholes and buttons; but with the use of buttons mounted on movable pins, the buttons may have their location changed so as to better register with the buttonholes and thus ensure the applica tion of the cover in a smooth, flat condition, without wrinkles or puckers.

Carrying out my invention, I mount the button on a plate and hinge the plate to the head of a pin, preferably a double-pointed or two-limbed pin, in such way that the button may be given various inclinations to adapt it to the contour of the surface of the article on which the device is applied, so as to be in effective position to engage the buttonhole of the cover. Furthermore, the plate may be provided with a reentrant prong at or near its upper edge which is adapted to enterthe material of the object on which the device is placed to lock the device in position, as I will proceed now to explain more fully and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustratingthe invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a front elevation; Fig. 2 is arear eleva-v tion; F 1g. 3 1s a side elevation, and Fig. 4 15 a longitudinal vertical section, illustrating one form of the invention. Fig. 5 is a front elevation showing the application of the invention in connection with a cover having a longitudinally arranged buttonhole. Fig. 6 is a View similar to Fig. 5 showing similar parts with the buttonhole arranged transversely. Fig. 7 is avertical section's howing the pin-attached button in position and engaged in a buttonhole of a cover and also showing in dotted lines the position that the button and its plate may be given in the sticking of the pin in an object.

Any suitable pin may be used as a support and attaching medium for the button, and I have shown as'a simple form a pin having a pair of pointed limbs or legs 1, connected by a transverse head 2.

'3 is the button plate, which may be of sheet metal, having the spaced-apart knuckle members 4 by means of which the plate has a hinged connection withthe head 2 of the pin so as tobe capable of swinging back and forth on said head, as, forexample, as illustrated by the dotted and full lines in Fig. 7. v

v 5 is the button, which may be of metal riveted to the plate as indicated at 6, or otherwise secured thereto, the head 7 of the button standing off from the plate a sufficient distance to admitof its engagement with a buttonhole in anobject, such as a seat cover, and its disengagement therefrom. Between the knuckle members a the plate is provided with a reentrant stabbing prong 8, arranged to extend rearwardly beneath the head 2 of the pin and in a direction opposite to the pair of pointed limbs or legs 1 of the pin, and as'illustrated in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 to extend into the upholstery material or other object on which the pin is mounted and thercby lock the button and plate in position and also lock the pin itself against accidental working out from the object.

' The pin-attached button may be applied to an object in a variety of ways. Vhere the object is substantially vertical in any of its parts which are adapted to receive the pin, its button and plate may be lifted into the position shown in dot-ted lines, Fig. 7, and the pin legs pushed down into the object until arrested by the pin head, and then the plate and button may be turnedover from the dotted line position into the full line position. to be engaged by the buttonhole 9 of the cover or other attached part 10; and when the button and plate are thus arranged, the stabbing prong will dig into the upholstery material as indicated by the lower dotted lines, Fig; 7, and thereby serve to lock the button and its plate in position of engagement with the cover and also lock the pin in position in the object. In F 7 the object 11 may be part of the rear seat of an automobile, and it is provided'with the upholstered surface 12.

In Fig. 5, the buttonhole 9 runs lengthwise button and its plate are pushed down to conform to the general contour of the article on which it is mounted at the point Where the device is mounted. For example, on door panels of an automobile, the pin points ultimately rest at a position approximately perpendicular to the floor of the car and the final resting position of the button and plate is approximately parallel to the limbs of the pin. When the pin is mounted at the top of the rear seat, as in Fig. 7, the pin points or limbs are first entered into the upholstery at an angle approximately perpendicular to the floor and the final resting position of the button and plate depending upon the angle or contour of the upholstery. ln either-position the pin is equally effective because the stabbing prong penetrates the material effectively at any angle less than ninety degrees to the limbs of the pin.

The button and its plate are indicated as made of metal, but it is obvious that the invention is not limited to the use of metal in the manufacture of these parts; and other variations are permissible Within the principle of the invention and the scope of the claims following.

What I claim is 1. A do-uble-pointed pin, having a head, a plate hingedly mounted on said head, a button fixed to said plate and moving With it as it swings on said pin head, and a single stabbing prong projecting from the plate in a. direction opposite to the pin points.

2. A double-pointed pin, having a head, a plate hingedly mounted on said head, a button 'ilXGCl to said plate and moving With it as it swings on said pin head, and a single reentrant stabbing prong projecting rearwardly from the plate beneath the head of the pin, and in a direction opposite to the pin points and adapted to lock the pin, plate and button in attached position for use.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2nd day of March, A. D. 1928.

GEORGE A. KING. 

